Summary of Meg-John Barker & Alex Iantaffi's Life Isn't Binary

Everest Media

Description

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 Sexuality is the area where the gay/straight binary is most challenged, and yet it still persists. People still tend to stick to the gay/straight binary, and non-binary sexuality is often ignored or erased.
#2 Representations of bisexuality have been changing over the last few years. In music, for example, Janelle Monáe, a contemporary queer and Black icon, used what has been termed bisexual lighting in her video for Make Me Feel.
#3 The bisexual lighting meme indicates how thirsty people are for openly bisexual representation. However, bisexual people are often invisible in dominant cultural contexts.
#4 Bisexuality is still not widely accepted in society, and is often associated with immaturity and experimentation. People also believe that it is unreasonable to want something beyond the binary of gay or straight.

Sujets

• Sexualité
• sexualité
• Sexualité
• General
• General officer
• Sociologie, société et politique
• Social Science
• LGBTQ+ Studies

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 10 mai 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9798822503052
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Insights on Meg-John Barker & Alex Iantaffi's Life Isnt Binary
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Insights from Chapter 1

#1

Sexuality is the area where the gay/straight binary is most challenged, and yet it still persists. People still tend to stick to the gay/straight binary, and non-binary sexuality is often ignored or erased.

#2

Representations of bisexuality have been changing over the last few years. In music, for example, Janelle Monáe, a contemporary queer and Black icon, used what has been termed bisexual lighting in her video for Make Me Feel.

#3

The bisexual lighting meme indicates how thirsty people are for openly bisexual representation. However, bisexual people are often invisible in dominant cultural contexts.

#4

Bisexuality is still not widely accepted in society, and is often associated with immaturity and experimentation. People also believe that it is unreasonable to want something beyond the binary of gay or straight.

#5

Many scientists have tried to prove whether or not bisexuality exists, but most surveys indicate that bi people are one of the largest groups in the rainbow. They do not set out to prove scientifically whether straight people exist, but some scientists feel the need to prove that bi people do not exist.

#6

The harmful stereotype of bisexual people as threats is often expanded to view bisexual women as hypersexual and sexually available, and bisexual men as vectors of disease.

#7

The gay/straight binary is one of the many binaries in dominant culture that has been personally harmful to us. It is also one of the binaries that has not changed despite decades of activism and awareness.

#8

The overlapping circles on the diagram demonstrate the problem. If we try to estimate the number of bisexual people, we get very different answers when we study the proportion of people who identify as bisexual, compared to when we study the proportion who've had sexual encounters with more than one gender.

#9

The three box model of sexuality is problematic, as it assumes that people only count as bisexual if they’re equally attracted to men and women. It also doesn’t distinguish between people who are mostly attracted to one gender and those who are mostly attracted to the other.

#10

The Kinsey scale is a limited spectrum that only captures our sexuality in terms of our attraction to the same gender. It assumes that one spectrum is enough to measure our sexuality, but we know that we might be in different places in terms of how we identify ourselves to others, our sexual attraction, and our actual sexual behavior.

#11

Sexual fluidity is the idea that our sexuality, on any or all of these elements, can change over time. It is something that researchers like Lisa Diamond and Jane Ward have studied and found to be common among their subjects.

#12

There are writers like James Baldwin and Maggie Nelson who refuse to be pinned down to sexual identity labels. They say that they just loved Thelma and Djuna Barnes, and that is all that matters.

#13

The word bisexual is used to describe someone who is attracted to both men and women. It is more accurate to say pansexual because it gets at the fact that gender is irrelevant to who we find attractive.

#14

Slow down and take a moment to focus on your contact and support between your feet and the ground, or between your butt and the seat. As you breathe, focus on the contact between you and the support underneath you.

#15

Sex and sexuality are a landscape rather than a continuum. This metaphor opens up more possibilities to explore all dimensions of sexuality. If you notice that we’ve missed something important to you, let us know.

#16

The field of queer studies has drawn attention to just how varied our sexualities are, and how opening up space for multiplicity, fluidity, and openness is essential.

#17

Solo sexuality is when we engage in sensual activities with ourselves. We might find cooking a beautiful and delicious meal to be part of a sensual experience, and some people find dancing, singing, or playing music to be sensual and/or nurturing experiences.

#18

Asexuality is when we don’t experience any feelings of arousal, excitement, desire, or lust. It is different from celibacy or sexual abstinence, which are behaviors, and from asexuality, which is a sexual identity.

#19

There are many domains of sexuality, besides the gender of the people we’re attracted to.